Gold to the Aussies! Mariafe Artacho (right) and Nicole Laird of Australia celebrate their victory in the women's beach volley ball final during the FIVB Under 23 World Championships in Myslowice, Poland.

Deadliest incident yet: Pro-Russian militants look through the debris of an IL-76 Ukrainian military transporter that separatists shot down on the outskirts of Lugansk, killing 40 troops and nine crew members. Ukraine's new President Petro Poroshenko vowed to deliver an "adequate response" to the attack.

Pony express fruit: A Palestinian farmer laden with boxes of fruit rides near the West Bank town of Hebron.
Israel broadened the search for three teenagers believed kidnapped by militants and imposed a tight
closure of the town.